video | orchestra three, dimmed evening hours

[jingyeets]

( Jingyi flops back to be sitting on a bed (large! well, double versus the twins of the cabins, so anyone who's in the doubles carriage is already used to this, lucky buds. He gives the ICP a look after sighing, holding up his hands in a stopping gesture. He keeps his voice lower since, well, this talks into cabins and some people are likely asleep, but: )

Okay, so, right. How do people sleep alone? It's so quiet! The big bed's nice, but I'm waking myself up here.

( He doesn't do pleading as his best look, but here, have a twenty-one year old making a Beseeching Expression to the people awake enough to have noticed the ICP up and talking. )

Anyone up for a four night sleepover or something? Elidibuses need not apply.

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[jingyeets]

What, you haven't seen dirt before?

( earth............................... is not a name he knows for a world. and no one's talked about earth to him before. so. hello, quatre, see his look of incredible disbelief over what amounts to a translation error. )

[gundamofthedesert]

No... I have.

[ He paused for a moment to figure out how to phrase it ]

So, the planets like the ones we visit on our missions The planet that I am from and the one you are likely from too is called Earth. Not just the ground, but the planet itself. I had seen dirt, but I had never been to the planet itself.

[jingyeets]

... Why assume the whole of a world has the same name?

( He's more baffled on that point, now that the soil vs Name thing is cleared up. )

[gundamofthedesert]

It is true. Other countries might have different names for the planet, but the actual origin of the name is from a language on my world called “German”. The name of the planet is derived from the word “erde” which does in fact mean “the ground”. In fact, a lot of other languages on my world do use “ground” as their word for planet. So, in a sense, the whole world is “the ground.”

But that also doesn’t mean that the whole planet has the same name. My ancestors are from a portion of the Earth referred to as Arabia. But Arabia is only a small portion of the planet and there are many other countries.

[ Sorry… he knows a bit too much on history, geographic, and science ]

[jingyeets]

... Yeah so what did your ancestors call the whole world? Probably not Arabia, right?

[gundamofthedesert]

Honestly, I’m not sure what the ancient name would have been. Most people were not so well traveled in older days, and they didn’t know a lot about the rest of the world so the concept of referring to the entire planet and not just neighboring kingdoms would be strange. Now-a-days, it would be called al’ard.

[jingyeets]

I guess what I really mean is what word is used to say world, then? Is that al'lard?

[gundamofthedesert]

[ Quatre nodded ]

If I were to talk someone from that area today, I would use al’ard to refer to the planet.

[jingyeets]

So you're from Al'ard, also called Earth. Where I'm from, we'd say the whole is Tianxia.

( 'all under heaven.' )

[gundamofthedesert]

‘Tianxia’… That is a nice name. I like it. It is interesting to hear what other cultures call the planet.

[jingyeets]

Mm, it's nice hearing the different words. 'Cause I think our worlds are more different than people think, even when they seem so familiar... but the echoes of familiar things, those are nice too.

[gundamofthedesert]

[ He nodded ]

So far, there haven't been many who can define my world the way I do, and even then it is not the same thing. But I like hearing about the other worlds. My world has changed so much being so heavily based in technology.

[ Not that he was complaining about his world. It was familiar and he had loved having a Gundam except for the fact of having to fight with it, but there was something surprising hearing about worlds that could essentially be his world's past ]

[jingyeets]

Does that mean you've got flying swords too? Just based on technology instead of cultivation?

[gundamofthedesert]

[He paused for a moment as he thought about that]

Yes, I guess in a way they are flying swords. Certainly flying weapons that we use to travel. Heero’s most fit the description of a flying sword, similar to how I’ve seen others be able to do it here.